QUOTE (FLY SPITTA @ Jul 2 2008, 01:46 PM)

This is like a anti-rap forum.
Some of you all should stop looking at the negative and positive side.
Hmm
I personally love rap, not because of who makes it or because it's the cool thing to listen to but because unlike most here 'I get it'.
While a lot of rap is positive a lot of it is negative too. When rappers rap about their hoods people think it's cool to live in the hood and be a gangster and they don't get it. They don't rap to glorify living in a ghetto (not the ones i listen too) they are telling a story of what it's like to grow up with nothing and not really have a way out.
IMO rappers should do more as role models for kids in the slums and give back. While I had a father growing up who worked hard many of the people I knew ended up in the joint for murder, robbery and other crimes because they didn't have positive role models in their lives.